Partition of C drive

[JJ007]

Hi sir,

I purcahsed a an HP laptop (HP Laptop 15-da0327) recently and all its Storage capcity of 1 TB is partitioned in C drive. I want to make a seperate drive for 400 GB. Is that possible? If possible does it affect my Original windows 10 Home installed in laptop? Please give me a reply and the process to partition my 1 TB hard disk drive.

[WAWood]

@JJ007

Whether or not you can add another partition depends on whether the drive is formatted using GPT or MBR, and if the latter, if it already has the maximum of 4 partitions installed.

Since it is running Win10, I'm guessing it is formatted GPT and that will allow you to create another partition.

To do that, do the following:

1) Enter "create and format" (without the quotes) in the search are

2) Click the selection that comes up -- that will open the Disk Management console

3) That will display information on the partitions resident on your drive

4) Select the large OS partition, right-click and choose Shrink Volume -- and shrink it down to make room.  The PC will probably have to reboot to do this, are you are messing with the partition that is in use

5) Once back, right-click inside the unallocated space and select the option to create a partition -- choose New Simple Volume. 

6) Assign Drive Letter or Path, then format the partition into default file system NTFS